Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to Edward Dowse (19 April 1803)
1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801–1805)
“The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.”
— Napoleon Hill, book Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich (1938) p.88
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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Randolph (1 December 1803), published in The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes http://oll.libertyfund.org/ToC/0054.php, Federal Edition, Paul Leicester Ford, ed., New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904, Vol. 109 http://files.libertyfund.org/files/806/0054-10_Bk.pdf, pp. 54 <br class="br">1800s, First Presidential Administration (1801&ndash;1805)
“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Source: L’Expérience Intérieure (1943), p. 12
Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey
Variant: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid
Source: "Northanger Abbey" (1817)
“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969) German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for his critical theory of society
“There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author
https://archive.is/20130704013203/www.ejpress.org/article/10660
“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925) British politician
Maurice Hankey's diary entry (12 May 1916), quoted in Stephen Roskill, Hankey, Man of Secrets: Volume I 1877-1919 (London: Collins, 1970), pp. 271-272.
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